If you have slow graphics performance and mouse responsiveness in the Windows Vista guest operating system, this is due to Windows Vista has display adapter hardware acceleration disabled by default. To enable display hardware acceleration in a Windows Vista guest OS, open the Control Panel, then click on Display Properties control panel and go to the Settings tab, and click Advanced. Open the Troubleshoot tab, drag the Hardware acceleration slider all the way to Full.

Stardock’s Bootskin freeware is a good software to change your bootskins easily. You can download it from stardock’s website.

If you try to create your own bootskin, you will have some diffuculties about pallette. Your image could have some weird colors. If your try to change your image pallette it wont work, because the problem is not in your main image pallete, it is in your progress bar image pallette. I am using paint shop pro to edit my images.To solve this pallette problem,you must save your main image pallette and load it to the progress bar image pallette.

Here is a preview of the bootskin that i merged a "Stargate" image and a Calligrafic "Bismillah" image.